Parts databases for the electronics industry may be the best way to find parts and to get details about them, but they're also remarkably incomplete, or just plain wrong. Even at 95 percent ...

Last month we looked at various types of database recovery, how they work, and how DBAs need to prepare for recovery scenarios. This month, let’s delve a little deeper into the issues and decisions ...

When the data requirements of an organization change, the databases used to store the data must also change. If the data is not reliable and available, the system does not serve the business—rather, ...